Mafe Brooks

Director of Development

Specializes in the cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of the major gifts development program of the College of Communication & Information. Leads the $1million+ fundraising campaigns for the Center for Hispanic Marketing Communication and the Debate program. Specializes in the solicitation of major gifts ($25,000 +) that would provide support for professorships, internships, scholarships, capital campaign and programs for the College of Communication & Information.

Elaine Howard

Assistant Director of Alumni Relations & Outreach

Elaine works as Development Coordinator and Assistant to the Dean at CCI. Her duties include supporting the dean in day to day operations of the Dean’s office, as well as building relationships with our alumni, students and community partners.

Christie Koontz

Dr. Koontz is serving as a part time faculty member at the School of Information (retired in 2016) teaching marketing, storytelling, grant writing, and supervising graduate internships, Dr. Koontz garnered numerous teaching awards and is the recent co-author of Marketing and Social Media: a Guide for Libraries, Archives and Museums with iSchool director Dr. Lorri Mon. Koontz also serves on the IFLA Management and Marketing Section conducting workshops globally. She has an FSU Communications’ degree in advertising (1980) and an FSU masters and PhD in Information (1981 and 1990.) She is facilitating recruitment planning at the iSchool.

Samantha Rice

Media Intern

Samantha works as the Media Intern for CCI. She is responsible for producing and publishing CCI News Articles featuring events, alumni, students, and faculty members. Samantha also creates and publishes social, digital, and print media content for CCI.